Prosodic effects of discourse salience and association with focus

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wagner, M ^b   Breen, M ^a   Flemming, E ^c   Shattuck Hufnagel, Stefanie ^c   Gibson, E ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus association; Givenness; Production; Prominence; Prosody

Indexed keywords

FOCUS ASSOCIATION; FOCUS OPERATORS; GIVENNESS; MULTIPLE FOCUS; PROMINENCE; PROSODICS; PROSODY; WASH OUT;

EID: 84957618874     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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